[PATCH] platform driver: Drop check for resource conflicts

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:57:43PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 11:44 Wed 10 Oct     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > The check is wrong since it would have to check whether the
> > new iomem region overlaps with an existing region. Checking
> > for the base address only is not enough.
> > Currently this is not possible because every device conflicts
> > with the top iomem region which covers the whole address space.
> > 
> > This at least fixes the regression that devices whose memory region
> > begins at 0x0 can no longer be succesfully registered.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> > Cc: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work at mail.ru>
> > Cc: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/platform.c |   12 ------------
> >  1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
> > index 13b4620..ea4e37b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/platform.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
> > @@ -66,18 +66,6 @@ int platform_device_register(struct device_d *new_device)
> >  {
> >  	new_device->bus = &platform_bus;
> >  
> > -	if (new_device->resource) {
> > -		struct device_d *dev;
> > -
> > -		bus_for_each_device(new_device->bus, dev) {
> > -			if (!dev->resource)
> > -				continue;
> > -			if (dev->resource->start == new_device->resource->start) {
> > -				return -EBUSY;
> > -			}
> > -		}
> > -	}
> > -
> IIRC this break the dt probe no?

Why should it?

> 
> this break the arm and st hw atleast

What breaks it? The check for conflicts or the removal of the check?
What breaks? I know no board which registers conflicting resources, so
the check never triggers.

Sascha

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